Colorado Marijuana Legalization Campaign
Legalize 2012
DON'T BE FOOLED BY COMPETITORS!
Fear not! For those of you who want to see cannabis
taken out of the hands of the Department of Revenue armed regulatory
agents and end the long compliance nightmare that is making it impossible
for anyone but the very rich to participate in Colorado's highly-regulated
cannabis industry ( oligopoly),
the Legalize2012.com campaign is working to write a "true legalization"
ballot initiative that will guarantee more reasonable regulations.
Time has expired for the 2012 ballot, so we will start working towards
the 2014 ballot.
Does Colorado need an extra $18 million in sales
tax?
Do you want to stop the funding of illegal drug
gangs?
Do you want to make your community safer?
Then it's time to end Prohibition -- again!
Cannabis Taxation Raises Money for State
CNN estimates that Colorado
would gain an extra $17.6 million in tax revenue if marijuana
were legalized today.
Practical Cannabis Regulation Helps Medical Patients
For medical cannabis patients, the Legalize 2012 Constitutional
Amendment is an important step in fixing Amendment 20, Colorado's
flawed medical marijuana law that was passed by voters in 2000.
Amendment 20 was poorly-written by out-of-state interests and has
allowed the state to take over the medical marijuana program to
the point where there is now a new branch of law enforcement dedicated
to fingerprinting and videotaping patients and tracking every gram
of cannabis from "seed to sale." Citizens can write a
better initiative that will allow all adult Coloradans to have safe
access to cannabis, thus protecting the rights of sick people to
also have unfettered, safe access. This
includes the right to use cannabis on probation.
Get involved in the real grassroots effort to put an initiative
on the ballot in Colorado: Legalize 2012.
Jack Herer
(June 18, 1939 - April 15, 2010) was the author of The Emperor
Wears No Clothes and the founder of the modern cannabis and
hemp re-legalization movement. Since cannabis is one of the safest
substances on the planet, he believed there should be no unreasonable
restrictions on cannabis cultivation and use by adults. His freedom-based
model rejects the sin taxes and over-regulation promoted in law
enforcement models. Cannabis should only be subject to normal sales
tax, like any other herbal product.
A ballot initiative is a citizen-initiated proposal for a new law.
In Colorado, the General Assembly creates most new laws, but the
citizens also retain the power to bring new laws directly to a vote
of the people through the ballot initiative. The ballot initiative
process was designed so that citizens could bring forth proposals
that are too controversial or unpopular for the General Assembly
to tackle. The process starts by the citizens getting together to
write the law. Then they collect signatures on petitions. If enough
signatures are collected (about 86,000 signatures of Colo. registered
voters are required), then the law goes on the ballot to be voted
on by the people.
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